The Database Environment MCQs with Explanations
Practice high-yield Computer Science & IT MCQs on The Database Environment with worked academic solutions for PPSC, FPSC, CSS, PMS, NTS.
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Metadata enables database designers and users to do all of the following except:
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Duplicate data often results in loss of data integrity because:
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Legacy data is which of the following?
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A database management system (DBMS) is a:
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A database application can perform which of the following activities?
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An enterprise data model is:
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A shared database should:
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Data administrators are responsible for:
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Which of the following types of databases are the most common?
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Which of the following is true for a relational database?
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Some advantages of the database approach include all, but:
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An enterprise database is which of the following?
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Structured data may include which of the following?
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An extranet is which of the following?
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All enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are heavily dependent on databases to store the data required by the ERP applications.
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Database management systems were first introduced in the 1950s.
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Databases that contain historical and summarized information are usually called data warehouses.
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An advantage of the database approach is the creation of maximum data redundancy.
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An enterprise data model is a relational model that shows the high-level entities for the organization and associations among those entities.
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A workgroup typically comprises between 25 and 100 persons.
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The source of the data is sometimes called the system of record.
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Data quality problems currently cost U.S. businesses some $60 million each year (Hudica, 2003).
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Stand-alone databases exhibit many of the same advantages common to file processing systems.
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The database approach requires additional costs and risks.
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Data descriptions are stored in a central location called the depository.
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Stored representations of objects and events that have meaning and importance in the user's environment are known as a database.
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Another name for multimedia data is unstructured data.
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The most common source of database failures in an organization is the failure to implement a strong database administration function.
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The primary mechanism for providing context for data is metadata.
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